From f5095ce8d56c3c1d0753de5f5cf690f414db0a35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Forster Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:46:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] oracle plugin: Added an exception to the GPL to allow linking with the OCI. --- src/oracle.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/oracle.c b/src/oracle.c index 9c6f9beb..2fc6f86e 100644 --- a/src/oracle.c +++ b/src/oracle.c @@ -15,6 +15,31 @@ * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., * 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA * + * Linking src/oracle.c ("the oracle plugin") statically or dynamically with + * other modules is making a combined work based on the oracle plugin. Thus, + * the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole + * combination. + * + * In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders of the oracle + * plugin give you permission to combine the oracle plugin with free software + * programs or libraries that are released under the GNU LGPL and with code + * included in the standard release of the Oracle® Call Interface (OCI) under + * the Oracle® Technology Network (OTN) License (or modified versions of such + * code, with unchanged license). You may copy and distribute such a system + * following the terms of the GNU GPL for the oracle plugin and the licenses of + * the other code concerned. + * + * Note that people who make modified versions of the oracle plugin are not + * obligated to grant this special exception for their modified versions; it is + * their choice whether to do so. The GNU General Public License gives + * permission to release a modified version without this exception; this + * exception also makes it possible to release a modified version which carries + * forward this exception. However, without this exception the OTN License does + * not allow linking with code licensed under the GNU General Public License. + * + * Oracle® is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its + * affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. + * * Authors: * Florian octo Forster **/ -- 2.30.2